Dave,
On Jun 2, 2004, at 5:15 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I'm using fop 0.20.4 and getting some very strange behavior with the layout of static content. I have a 5 page document that is very tight on space ( .25 inch margins, .375 in footer, for example). I have a footer that occupies .25in when drawn that I am putting in a region-after whose extent is .375in. I also have a conditional page master in place separating page 1 from 2-5. I am getting a warning that states "Some static content could not fit in area" although it draws the content on page 1, 2, and 4. The strange part is that I get the warning after page 2, then page 3 get's no content drawn in the region-after. Likewise with page 4 and 5 ( 4 gets the warning, 5 gets no content).
If I make my region after extent very large ( 1in ), all warnings go away, and all footers are drawn, but the document layout cannot support this.
It seems to me like there is a problem in the way the size of the region-after content is being determined, and sometimes the calcualtion is off by enough that it will not even attempt to draw anything.... This is, of course, just a guess.
This is a showstopper for me and I've been struggling with it for several days, any thoughts?
This sounds to me like your region-after has some extra content in it (perhaps an extra fo:block, or something out side of the fo:block). As you probably already know, when there is extra content in a static region-before or region-after, it 'flows' to the 'next' page. This could explain why it goes away when you increase the size. In addition, if you change your output mode from AWT to PDF (or vice versa), the font metrics change somewhat (AWT has taller line-height in my experience), exacerbating the problem.
I have a few suggestions:
- analyze the offending region-after to ensure there's no whitespace (put the entire region-before block all on one line with no spaces or carriage returns between--there may be whitespace which shouldn't be used, that *is* being used in the calculation of the layout)
- upgrade to fop-0.20.5
- make certain the fo:region-body margin-bottom matches the fo:region-after extent
- increase the fo:region-after extent from .375 to .38 or .39 or .5
Hope this helps!
Clay Leeds - [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- Web Developer - Medata, Inc. - <http://www.medata.com/> PGP Public Key: <https://mail.medata.com/pgp/cleeds.asc>
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